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The brief (26 minutes), almost entirely acoustic,
Bet The Sky (K, 1995) is basically a concept album inspired by a
failed relationship during her stay in Washington.
Led by the painfully autobiographical accounts of Westling An Angel,
February 15 and
Charles Atlas, the album sails towards the mature meditation of
Transatlantic Telephone Call and the peppery exorcism of Sky Town.
Her sharp writing skills focus on a classic of the anglosaxon literature, a
cycle of poems that describe the passage from innocence to experience.

The EP Snapshot Radio (K, 1996) contains duets that Lois played with
musicians who inspired her and testifies of the singer's continued efforts
to experiment new textural platforms for her lyrical excursions.
My Souvenir and Northern Soul are thus less "folksy" than
anything she has recorded before, and even the atmospheric
Not Funny Ha Ha is tinged with a neurotic feeling that was missing
from her previous, straightforward conjectures.

Low's guitarist Alan Sparhawk,
Fugazi's drummer/guitarist Brendan Canty and
drummer and long-time collaborator Heather Dunn
(of Tiger Trap)
also accompany her on the album Infinity Plus (Kill Rock Stars, 1996).
The sound benefits from the EP's experiments.
A Summer Long, Silent Auction and Bridge Burner
are complex songs that expand on her folkpop style.
At the same time, Rougher and especially RSVP
are her most musical songs ever.

Maffeo is joined by Fugazi's drummer Brendan Canty on
The Union Themes (Kill Rock Stars, 2000), an eclectic collection
that highlights the serious overtones of her most adult art over the traditional
bittersweet understatements of her punkier songs.
Notwithstanding the overall sense of unity and homogeneity,
Maffeo is an impersonator who changes personality at every song:
the rural singer of These Parts, that sounds like a mediterranean folk
dance, leads to the lively country-rocker How I Came To Know and
eventually metamorphoses into the pulsing pop of Give Faith.
The gloomy soul singer of Being Blind plunges into the bare, honkytonking
confession of Handwriting and weaves the dramatic tension of
Best Believe on a sleepy, hypnotic blues pace,
while the sophisticated intellectual of Hollow Reed achieves
the intensity of church music in the closing Monument (for tender vocal
harmonies and casual guitar strumming).
Maffeo is a unique hybrid of Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake,
Tin Pan Alley, Nashville and the Delta.
Her touching ballads bridge generations, genders and races.
Canty shines as a talented multi-instrumentalist, alternating on drums, bass,
guitar and even piano.

The Own and the Pussycat (2004) is a collaboration with Greg Moore of
laid-back lo-fi pop music.